Gore: New Goal - 500,000 Messages to Congress

[helderheid]

When I emailed you last Friday, 294,374 people had signed our message to Congress demanding immediate action to solve the climate crisis. In that email, I asked you to help meet the goal of delivering 350,000 messages when I testify at Congressional hearings on Wednesday.

Your response was amazing. By Saturday morning - because of you - we exceeded our goal! In fact, as I write this email, our total has risen to 405,758. Thank you!

What that means is that we are now within striking distance of collecting over 500,000 messages - and have less than 48 hours to get it done in time for the Congressional hearings.

Now is the time to reach out to as many people as possible. Ask any friend who wants to end the climate crisis to sign our message to Congress now by visiting:

http://www.algore.com/cards.html

By the way, maybe this goes without saying, but please reach out to Republican and Independent, as well as Democratic friends. One of our goals must be to make this issue one that transcends partisanship. While many of the solutions to the climate crisis will be found within the political system, there should be bipartisan and transpartisan agreement on the basic nature of the crisis and the sense of urgency that is appropriate for us to solve it.

That point was brought home to me again last week when I visited London and met with the leaders of the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. In the UK, both major political parties are completely committed to taking real action to solve the climate crisis. They openly acknowledge this is an unprecedented moral issue and are competing vigorously to see who can propose the most creative and effective solutions to solve this crisis.

Here at home, our objective must be to create a similar sense of urgency in both political parties. That is why your activism leading up to these hearings is so important. We are so close to our new goal of 500,000 messages to Congress. You can help put us over the top.

So please reach out to everyone you know and ask them to sign our message to Congress today - or at least within the next 48 hours by visiting:

http://www.algore.com/cards.html

Thank you,


Al Gore

P.S. On Wednesday both the House and Senate will webcast the hearings live.

My testimony in the House of Representatives begins at 9:30 AM and you can watch the webcast by visiting:

http://www.house.gov/science

My testimony in the Senate begins at 2:30 PM and you can watch the webcast by visiting:

http://epw.senate.gov

[redqueen]

1. YES!

Everyone should have done this by now... sent in their card & sent this along to everyone they know for more cards!

:bounce:

[helderheid]

2. Indeed! 500,000 !!!

[fooj]

3. Does anyone know if it will be on C-span?

[helderheid]

5. I believe it will be - I'm off to check the schedule!

[usregimechange]

4. K & R

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. I knew when he hit the 300,000 so fast that it should have been higher

Spread the word DUers post it on your blogs, forums and email lists.



:kick: &R

[madfloridian]

7. That's how much more of the popular vote Gore got over Bush.

Half a million. Do you realize most people don't know that?

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread helderheid

[redqueen]

9. Kick!

:kick:

[IndyOp]

10. I am soooooo excited! Wednesday!! Woo-hoo!!! (n/t)

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. One more kick

:kick:

[lovuian]

12. Got my letter Woohoo Al

:woohoo:

[helderheid]

13. k

[FourScore]

14. 500,000!!!! n/t

[helderheid]

15. YES!!

[il_lilac]

16. k&r

thanks for posting. Let's show him he can get us working for him!

[il_lilac]

17. oops

forgot to hit rec. Gives me another excuse to kick this.

[helderheid]

19. thanks!

[kerstin]

18. k&r.

[kerstin]

20. Kick again.

[heatstreak]

21. kick

[JNelson6563]

22. I was thinking about this today

and this is a good way to see what kind of support Gore can drum up. An effective passive aggressive political flexing IMO.

Don't know if it's true but I like the notion of it. ;-)

Julie

[insane_cratic_gal]

23. So did he deliver it today?

And did he get his 500,000?

I know I signed it, and I also suggested a run for 2008 =p